Photo: Keith Channing
They came for the car today.
It’s just a car, she tried to tell herself. It would not make sense to keep it. Not with the fees and with the debt on it only increasing. Oh, she tried, but there was no way around the loss of it.
No way around loss. In general.
She couldn’t bear to go outside to see it off. She stayed indoors, her nose glued to the window, her sweaty palms pressing life-lines into the glass, her heart in shreds.
It’s been his car.
And he would not be coming home to drive it.
Note: Dedicated on this Veterans Day (US) and Remembrance Day (The Commonwealth), to all who fought and won and lost and left and returned, or left and did not return, or not in the same way they’d left. And to the many who still are away in uniform. You are seen. You are known. May all come home whole. And may humanity one day learn peace and no more war.
Na'ama Yehuda 
Beautifully done. And that could have been my nose to the window for my old car after I brought HIS truck in to get my new car. Strangely, watching my old one being towed away brought me to tears…
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I bet it had …
It is the change and the letting go and the realization — again and again — that some things are final. I can only imagine how difficult it was.
Hugs to you, my friend!
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It is the things you don’t know will affect you and you think it’s silly but it is.
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True. And .. not silly. … just is. … xoxo
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Yes. Just is. xoxo
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Good one, Na’ama
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Thank you, John!
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Yes.
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Very touching and very appropriate, Na’ama. I really value your contributions to this challenge.
Having said that, you should see what we got to replace the old banger! 🙂
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🙂 Thanks, Keith … I was aware that the photo probably wasn’t exactly about the content it elicited in me and I hope it was okay to take it in the direction I’d had.
And … I am now all ears to see what replaced that old banger … 🙂
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I’m happy with whatever you can tease out of the photos. Sometimes I think it’s more difficult knowing the background of the thing.
That was a middle of the range Vauxhall Astra estate; the new one is top-of-range Astra SRI estate. My wife adores it – plenty of power and comfort and good economy too.
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Yay hurray to you! Happy Astra!
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Thank you, Keith!
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